Join PEN/Hemingway Award recipient and National Book Award finalist author Ben Fountain as he discusses with author and Guggenheim Fellow Anna Badkhen her new book of essays, Bright Unbearable Reality, in which she examines and reports on migration, displacement, and a hope for human connection amid a time of great upheaval.

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Moderator: Ben Fountain, author of—most recently—Beautiful Country Burn Again Anna Badkhen, Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays